ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses following questions by looking at how technological hazards affect the way people evaluate the livability of their neighbourhoods. It provides evidence that industrial hazards are a real threat to the goal of compact, sustainable development. To deal with this problem, several steps are proposed that can be taken to achieve environmental sustainability with environmental justice. Can cities accommodate industrial and residential land uses in close proximity to each other Or, are fears of industrial hazards likely to foster population dispersal to avoid threats to personal health and safety or unjust settlement patterns that place to poor and minority in close proximity to hazardous land uses. Compact cities increasingly are being advocated as an approach for accomplishing environmentally sustainable land-use patterns. A major problem is the failure of those who advocate sustainability through compact development to recognise that problems exist.
